Attenuated

Pronunciation varies by accent · verb

Meaning

simple past and past participle of attenuate.

Definitions by Sense

1. simple past and past participle of attenuate
2. Made, or become weak; subject to attenuation.
3. (botany) Long and tapering (especially of leaves)

Example Sentences

attenuated power

To conclude otherwise requires accepting an attenuated fiction that commingling funds in an account, even if done decades earlier, means the account today still contains funds attributable to the sale of expropriated property.

He had his tea and hot rolls in a morning, while we were battening upon our quarter of a penny loaf—our crug—moistened with attenuated small beer, in wooden piggins, smacking of the pitched leathern jack it was poured from.

She had become spiritualized in mind, even as she had grown attenuated in person.

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Word Forms

• more attenuated
• most attenuated

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